DERBY UK 22ND AUG 2014 – RESPONSE TO DERBY CITY AND
COUNTY COUNCIL PRESS RELEASE OF 21ST AUG
2014
SINFIN INEFFICIENT WASTE INCINERATION PLANT BACKED BY SO CALLED
GREEN INVESTMENT BANK GETS GO AHEAD
As the recycling
rate of Derby City Council enters an ever steeper decline with the implementation of a £40 garden waste tax news broke on 21st of August
that the councils of Derby and Derbyshire have reached closure on a
controversial waste incineration plant to be constructed in an area of poor
health and deprivation in the heart of Sinfin in the city of Derby.
Sited on an ex
tannery and landfill http://derby-waste-a-rubbish-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2014_05_01_archive.html currently subject to local concern regarding anthrax site
contamination risking health both on and off site the controversial waste
incineration plant has been successfully delayed by campaigners concerned about
health impacts from the billion cubic metres of emissions per year from the
plant along with the threat of wide spread combustion in the plant of materials
which could and should be recycled. This was confirmed in the recent Derbyshire
County Council waste draft strategy document on page 16 where it is noted 47% of
residual waste in Derbyshire is recyclable waste. http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/Dealing%20with%20Derbyshires%20Waste%20Draft%20Strategy_tcm44-234569.pdf
In a bizarre twist
supported by Vince Cable the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) has agreed to invest
£64 million in the project even though the plant destroys potentially recyclable
material and was show at the 2nd Derby public inquiry to be in its
standard electricity only mode an inefficient waste disposal incineration plant
which fails to meet the requirements of the R1 formula test of plant efficiency.
It is not clear why a green investment bank would invest in such an inefficient
plant. The council’s developer – Resource Recovery Solutions has at no point
shown any evidence of local customer demand for heat and steam from the plant
which would allow the plant to become an R1 compliant recovery facility. It
therefore languishes on the bottom tier of the waste hierarchy in
disposal.
The council press
release implied that any recyclable materials would be extracted at the plant
however no documents were put forward at either planning or at either public
inquiry showing this to be the case – only that which would not burn would be
extracted.
The councils of
Derby and Derbyshire are very enthusiastic for the Sinfin plant to go ahead. In
the case of Derbyshire County Council this is because they get their rubbish
burnt on someone else’s door step and in the case of both councils they will be
rewarded for procuring the correct feedstock – as shown in the waste contract
with highly lucrative Renewable Obligation Certificates known as ROC’s. It is
not clear why such an inefficient plant that sits at the bottom of the waste
hierarchy will be rewarded for its failure to be efficient at energy generation
and this opens the door for similar inefficient plants to be constructed across
the UK. A legacy of the Green Investment Bank will be waste forced down the
waste hierarchy with the claims of green energy and sustainable waste management
while the reality is large volumes of combustion emissions will be pumped into a
poor city community, resources will be destroyed and lives ruined – all in the
name of green energy.
SIMON
BACON
CHAIRMAN
SINFIN, SPONDON
AND ALL AGAINST INCINERATION (S.S.A.I.N)
EMAIL S.S.A.I.N
via ssainderby@aol.com
Twitter
@ssainderby
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©SIMON BACON 2016
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